The Failed Announcement

One day, two days, three days...

Yi Chen spent nearly every day contemplating the patterns and characteristics of the wind's movement, studying the motions of birds and beasts.

The reason it was nearly every day, rather than every day,

was that every few days, he would return to the Flame Mountain Tribe to check on the clansmen's cultivation progress.

It was fairly good.

On the very day he gave his lesson, more than twenty people sensed the existence of Spiritual Energy and the Qi Sea and were able to cultivate.

By the next day, everyone except the elderly and young children with poorer comprehension had sensed the existence of Spiritual Energy and the Qi Sea.

This gave Yi Chen a rough understanding of the Yellow Flame Tribe clansmen's talent.

After that, more and more clansmen began breaking through to the Qi Condensation Realm Second Stage, even finding time to learn the Flying Knife Art.

The Flame Mountain Tribe's overall average strength rose at an astonishing pace.

Gu Li and Luo Ge in particular had originally been warriors of the Tribe, and both possessed exceptional talent.

In merely four or five days, they broke through to the Qi Condensation Realm Second Stage and learned the Flying Knife Art.

If Gu Li encountered the Unicorn Boar that had once forced her into a desperate situation again, she would be able to kill it with ease.

As for ordinary clansmen, once they broke through to the Qi Condensation Realm Second Stage, their strength would absolutely be no weaker than Gu Li and Luo Ge had been back then.

If they learned the Flying Knife Art, they would only become stronger.

In other words, after Yi Chen began promoting the Chaos Art, ordinary clansmen only needed to break through to the Qi Condensation Realm Second Stage and learn the Flying Knife Art for their strength to surpass the level of tribal warriors.

By Yi Chen's estimate, that would take roughly a month.

Genius-level cultivators could break through to the Qi Condensation Realm Second Stage in three to five days.

Ordinary cultivators, on the other hand, needed around a month.

For now, everything had only just begun. He had yet to create a Formation that could accelerate cultivation or Spirit Pills that could raise one's realm, so he could only patiently wait for the clansmen to grow stronger.

Fortunately, with his current realm and talent, although he could not create Formations or Alchemy, he could create other cultivation methods that could likewise raise the clansmen's strength.

The cultivation method he was currently researching and creating was one of them.

A movement technique!

This was a type of cultivation method he had intended to research and create long ago.

Compared to Ferocious Beasts, the Human Race's bodies were far too frail.

Even warriors with burly builds like Gu Li and Luo Ge were like little fellows before Ferocious Beasts.

But being small had its advantages.

The first was agility.

Yi Chen intended to first create a movement technique precisely to greatly enhance this advantage.

Once the Human Race's speed could be increased severalfold, or even dozens of times over,

they could completely rely on their speed advantage to slowly wear Ferocious Beasts to death.

Even if they could not win, they could still escape with ease.

Once movement techniques became widespread,

the Flame Mountain Tribe, the cornerstone of conquering the world, could officially begin expanding beyond The Valley.

According to Yi Chen's plans, in a little over three months, when the Harsh Winter had completely passed and spring was in full bloom, the Flame Mountain Tribe would set out on its first expedition.

Sharpening the knife did not delay chopping firewood!

Though he was eager to expand his sphere of influence and thus increase his talent bonus, he did not wish to act with undue haste.

The Flame Mountain Tribe developed steadily and methodically. Every tribal clansman could clearly feel their strength growing with each passing day.

One after another, they immersed themselves in excitement and hard work every day, unable to pull themselves free.

Across the Human Race's major planets in the Milky Way, all humanity was steeped in anxiety.

"What the hell is going on? It's already been more than ten days since the Billion Medicines Cultivation Method Research Institute finished construction. Why hasn't a New Cultivation Method been released yet?"

"Could it be that these Cultivation Method Research Institutes have researched and created cultivation methods better than the improved Chaos Art, discovered they were far too good, and could not bear to release them, deciding to go back on their word and grow fat on it?"

"Impossible! More than a thousand Cultivation Method Research Institutes have finished construction one after another. One or two might go back on their word and grow fat on it, but among more than a thousand, not a single one has released a New Cultivation Method!"

"There is only one possible explanation for this situation—none of these Cultivation Method Research Institutes has successfully created a cultivation method better than the improved Chaos Art so far."

"How could that be possible? These Cultivation Method Research Institutes gathered vast numbers of top geniuses whose cultivation speeds were not much slower than Yi Chen, the creator himself."

"Dozens, even hundreds of top geniuses gathered together, exchanging insights and pooling their wisdom to research New Cultivation Methods. No matter what, they should not be slower than Yi Chen."

"Not to mention the vast amounts of high-end instruments and equipment assisting them, along with numerous scientific researchers devising better research plans."

"But if they have not failed to create a cultivation method better than the Chaos Art, how else can it be explained that not one of the major Cultivation Method Research Institutes has released anything?"

"What exactly is going on?"

As the days passed, the Human Race on every major planet grew increasingly restless and frustrated.

The official websites of those Cultivation Method Research Institutes were flooded with massive numbers of messages every moment, all asking about their progress.

The Billion Medicines Cultivation Method Research Institute had been the first to announce its establishment and the first to announce that construction was complete.

It was also the first Cultivation Method Research Institute to issue an announcement after the fifteenth day following completion.

<Research Results Regarding New Cultivation Methods!>

The entire report ran to dozens of pages.

It also included videos of several experimental processes.

Only through this announcement did the public learn in astonishment

that the Billion Medicines Cultivation Method Research Institute had invested several hundred billion in total.

The person in charge of the Research Institute was one of the three most renowned giants in the field of biology.

It had recruited more than five hundred geniuses.

Yet even so, it had ended in failure.

Over half a month, among the more than five hundred geniuses, not a single one had successfully comprehended deeper natural laws and Spiritual Energy characteristics.

Over half a month, the Billion Medicines Cultivation Method Research Institute had conducted more than fifty experiments.

Under the assistance of all kinds of top-tier instruments and equipment, more than fifty geniuses had failed to successfully test even a single complete cultivation-route diagram.

Forget a cultivation-route diagram that surpassed the improved Chaos Art; they could not even test a simple one inferior to the first-generation Chaos Art.

What was more, of those more than fifty cultivation geniuses, over thirty had been crippled.

Every one of them had not only ended in failure but had also suffered the backlash of violent Spiritual Power.

The force of that backlash varied in severity.

Some could still be repaired with high-end medical equipment.

But for some whose Qi Seas and meridians had been severely damaged, even the Human Race's current medical standards could not repair them.

One set of test data after another, one experimental-process video after another, proved the authenticity of the report.

The moment this announcement was released,

all humanity erupted in uproar.

The entire Milky Way was plunged into shock.

Across the Milky Way's stock markets, pharmaceutical shares once again went into a frenzied plunge.

Even stock prices in other industries followed suit, collapsing like mercury pouring over the ground...